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- A total solar eclipse crosses Iceland and Spain on 12 August, Europe's first since 1999Totality lasts at most two minutes and 18 seconds along an 8,260-kilometre track, while partial phases reach from Alaska to West Africa, with 94 percent coverage in Dublin.
- Rope bridges over Amazon roads carried 15,000 animal crossings without one roadkillCamera traps in Alta Floresta, Brazil, logged six primate species over 15 months, among them the critically endangered Alta Floresta titi monkey; the transport agency has made the design its highway standard.
- Early mammals appear to have blocked the evolution of mouse-sized dinosaursA model by Stephanie Lechki and Roger Benson predicts a most common body mass of three kilograms for dinosaurs; the fossil figure is around 180 kilograms, the pair report in the journal Evolution.
- Households earning under 60,000 euros file three quarters of Germany's electric-car subsidy claimsThe Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control had received 102,539 applications by 4 August, more than 52,000 of them from the lowest income bracket of up to 45,000 euros.
- The Australian Museum returns 17 Rapa Nui ancestors taken in 1882 to Easter IslandThe Sydney institution bought the remains from a German naval expedition in 1883; they reached Santiago on 17 July and were flown on to the island after two years of consultation.
- The world's solar fleet passes three terawatts as poorer countries take the leadBloomberg's analysts date the third terawatt to March 2026, and SolarPower Europe counts a record 664 gigawatts added in 2025 alone, with China supplying more than half.
- Astronomers detect the first wandering black hole at the edge of a galaxyA University of Maryland team found the object of about four million solar masses in Zwicky Transient Facility data in November 2025, 30,000 light years from the core of a galaxy 750 million light years away.
- Hollow-fibre electrodes turn up to 90 percent of seawater CO2 into limestoneA team from KAIST and MIT ran its device off the Korean island of Jeju for more than 120 hours, using up to 54 percent less electricity than comparable methods.
- Thinned mountain ash stores as much carbon as unlogged forest, a 30-year Australian trial showsResearchers returned to a forgotten 1987 experiment at Tanjil Bren in Victoria and found that trees left standing after heavy thinning grew 20 percent thicker than trees in untouched plots, with Leadbeater's possums present in every harvested plot.
- Manganese nanoparticle spray doubles tomato shoot weight in salty soilIn greenhouse trials led by the University of Texas at El Paso, a low-dose leaf spray of manganese oxide and chitosan restored growth in salt-stressed tomato plants; salinity threatens up to 30 percent of the world's irrigated cropland.
- Panamint starts building a 1.2-gigawatt solar farm at a working Texas coal siteThe $1.7 billion Big Rooter project near Bremond in Robertson County will add 1.2 gigawatts of solar and 1.6 gigawatt-hours of batteries beside a coal plant that keeps running, with the first phase due to generate power in August 2028.
- Zeidler wins the European single sculls title in a record 6:36.39 minutesThe Olympic champion beat defending champion Jauhen Salaty in Varese on 2 August to take his fourth European title; Germany's men's eight finished second behind Romania.
- German trades sign 67,800 new apprenticeship contracts, 4.9 percent more than last yearIt is the fourth consecutive year of growth; the trade confederation links it partly to young people choosing work they believe AI cannot replace.
- Uruguay houses one household in twenty through cooperativesA 1968 law turned cooperatives into a permanent tenure that keeps land and flats off the private market; UN-Habitat counts the model against a global shortage of 288 million homes.
- 6,600 people sing opera choruses on the Bregenz lakeside standSingers from five countries came together for the Bregenz Festival's 80th anniversary; taking part was free and the tickets sold out.
- Researchers track red kites by GPS to keep them clear of wind turbinesThe MoveBank database now holds more than 5.3 million location points, showing where the raptors hunt and where turbines are better not built.
- The EU puts 10 billion euros behind seven AI gigafactoriesThe public money is meant to draw at least 20 billion euros in private investment, with each site planned to hold at least 100,000 advanced AI chips.
- Beaver dams keep water in the landscape as England dries outMore than half of England is in drought; University of Exeter data show the wetlands of four beaver territories together hold over 24 million litres of water.
- Halle is showing the complete work of artist Edmund Kesting for the first timeBranded "degenerate" by the Nazis and refused exhibitions in East Germany, the painter and photographer finally gets a complete survey at the Kunstmuseum Moritzburg.
- Deutsche Bahn posts its first profit in seven yearsA 147-million-euro surplus in the first half, against a 760-million loss a year earlier — and 17 million more passengers.
- An Australian fossil shows which predator ate whichNeutron scans found a pterosaur's jaw in an ichthyosaur's gut — and crushing bite marks showing the ichthyosaur was itself eaten by a Kronosaurus.
- Engineers restore the complete Paramount recordings of Ma RaineyA new box set gathers every Paramount side she cut between 1923 and 1928, plus alternate takes — and brings back loud notes and violin parts that old playback equipment skipped.
- On 12 August the Moon will cover up to 90 percent of the Sun over GermanyTotality runs across Greenland, Iceland and Spain; in Germany the partial eclipse begins only shortly before sunset.
- Peterborough hands out school uniforms free all year roundPeterborough's pop-up sits on top of a permanent council-run second-hand uniform store, treating school clothing as both a household cost and a waste problem.